3 March 6:30 pm. Free admission until capacity is reached.
Expanded cinema performance and subsequent conversation. Esperanza Collado.
This is a choreographed reading that involves the use of books, rolls of film, plants, 24-millimetre slides and a 16-mm film projector. The text is an ode to cinema as an experience and includes different quotes from thinkers and filmmakers based on Collado’s own research on forms of para-cinema. According to the author, ‘Things Said Once is a declaration of art and a paean to cinema in recognition of its history and our responsibility in the present’. Written as a poem, the text is built around an understanding of cinema as an experience in its spatial, temporal and communitarian dimensions. Formally, it is presented as a performance, a reading in a crafted setting that includes gestures, body actions and objects through which the text is revealed.
Different versions of this performance have been staged and have evolved since 2015 in art spaces like Taipei Contemporary Art Centre (Taiwan), the Lajevardi Foundation in Teheran (Iran), the Centro Cultural de España in Montevideo (Uruguay), the Centro de Cultura Montehermoso (Vitoria), the Cinematek of Brussels (Belgium), the Microscope Gallery in New York and the CCCB in Barcelona, and at festivals like Oberhausen (Germany), Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film (Great Britain) and Punto de Vista (Pamplona).
On 9 February 2014, Esperanza Collado opened the first edition of El Cine Rev[b]elado with the performance Ensayos de la evaporación [Essays on Evaporation] (We only Guarantee the Dinosaurs). Ten years later she is returning to this series to close it, coming full circle, and to share a new performance that carries on her practice and inquiry within expanded film and the people who are part of it.
All participants will be given a fanzine, Things Said Once, illustrated by Paula Guerrero, written by Esperanza Collado and designed by Jaime Narváez. At the end of the performance, the curators will hold an encounter with the artist, ten years later…
Esperanza Collado is a visual artist, filmmaker and teacher. She holds a PhD from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, where she currently teaches. Her field of work and research are located between installation and performance, as she troubles the medium of film and its presentation conditions to explore the instability of projection and makes minimal choreographies around the syntax of film. Her 16-mm films are envisioned for performative settings. She is the author of Paracinema: la Desmaterialización del Cine en las Prácticas Artísticas and the co-founder of the Asociación Artística LEVE and the Experimental Film Club, a film exhibition space in Dublin.
Credits: Things Said Once. Photograph: Duna Vallés.